Beijing time on December 24, the Lakers home to meet the Spurs, before, the Lakers have suffered 3 consecutive defeats, play no one can win, it seems that the role of thick eyebrows is really big, after his absence, the Lakers have been blown up at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends. And this time facing the fifth-to-last Spurs in the West is a good opportunity for the Lakers to stop the decline. However, from the perspective of the game, the Lakers are still playing very hard, can only rely on James alone, other players are difficult to score, and the Spurs have expanded the point difference to double digits early.
In the first half of the game, the Lakers performed average, but James exploded. The Lakers trailed 24-33 in the first quarter, close to a 10-point gap, and James was full of firepower, and the Spurs could not defend him. By the second quarter, the Spurs played a 33-31 score, and the point difference had reached more than 10 points. It is worth mentioning that during the game, 20 of the 40 points scored by the Lakers were contributed by James, which is enough to see how bad the Lakers' roster is now, the players are too old, and it is difficult to race with young lads on the court.
At the end of the half, James scored 23 points, which was the best game in the first half of the 21-22 season so far, and it was clear that he wanted to lead the Lakers to win the game, but Popovich was the coach who knew James the most, and he knew how to beat James's team.
Vogel had set goals for the Lakers, scoring more points in the third quarter than his opponents, but it seemed difficult to achieve. The Lakers were still being held back in the third quarter, already trailing by 15 points, and Westbrook finally scored in double figures, and it was difficult for others to help him and James more. As Westbrook exploded in the second half of the third quarter, the Lakers gradually narrowed the point gap to around 10 points.
The Spurs' biggest fear is not a superstar like James, who plays decently, but a chaotic master like Westbrook, and the Spurs' deployment is also disrupted after a one-shot operation. In the third quarter, the Lakers scored 37 points, but the Spurs also scored 39 points, and the Lakers scored themselves, but they still couldn't defend their opponents. Wei Shao went on a rampage in the third quarter, 7 of 9 in a single quarter, he scored 17 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal, and after the outbreak of old Zhan, Wei Shao also fought.
In the fourth quarter, the point difference is getting bigger and bigger, and it is close to 20 points. The Lakers were blown up, and there was no hope of a reversal. In the end, the Lakers lost to the Spurs 110-138, suffered 4 consecutive losses, ranked sixth in the West with 16 wins and 17 losses, and this year's NBA is also very strange, if in the past, the Lakers' results may not even be in the top ten in the West, and now they are in the top six, which is really incredible.
Lakers James missed the first 40+ of the season, about 5 minutes to finish, the old Zhan has already scored 36 points, but then was replaced, because the Lakers have fallen behind by more than 20 points, let James continue to play meaningless, just imagine, if the Lakers bite the score, James scored 40 points is not a problem at all. Wei Shao also cut 30 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, when James was resting, only Wei Shao was fighting, he became a fig leaf for the Lakers, and he did not expect that Wei Shao, who was questioned the most, became the most scrappy player of the Lakers.
And lakers interim coach Fitzdale was furious in the game, because James's two-pointer was blown away by the referee, and he scored 2 points steadily, but it was considered an early foul, which was really depressing. In addition to Westbrook and James, the Lakers' little Tucker scored 13 points, perhaps, the Lakers can consider rebuilding with the big three as the core, trade everyone else, change a new batch of players, maybe the Lakers still have a chance to compete for the championship, otherwise, the current Lakers, at most, is the level of the first round of the playoffs.